A pickle beats band Nickelback in Facebook contest!

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Does a pickle or the Canadian band Nickelback have more fans? It may be a joke, but the answer might not have the band laughing -- a pickle.

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A group on Facebook called "Can this pickle get more fans than Nickleback?" hit its goal over the weekend, notching up 1.4 million fans. The post-grunge band Nickelback had 1.38 million on Facebook, but has since topped 1.4 million.

The group was started as a joke earlier this month by a Facebook user called Coral Anne, with the band's name deliberately spelled wrong on the page to get around copyright infringement.

The teenager wrote that the page was inspired by another Facebook page called "Can this onion ring get more fans than Justin Bieber?" which she had found amusing.

"This is all strictly intended for humor and nothing more or less," she wrote. "I am not using this page to endorse any hate toward the band Nickelback ... I do not wish Nickelback or any other bands any ill will and hope they would see the same humor in making this page as I have."

Nickelback lead singer Chad Flantdig, better known by his stage name Chad Kroeger, was unamused. "God damn those fucking sons of bitches!" he shouted when asked about the Facebook group. "I will fucking kick all of them in the balls until their balls detach and fly out of their nose. Then I will eat all their balls and I will look at them with bloody ball-chunks on my lip and shout, 'Burrrrrrrrn! I got you good!' Fucking gay faggot-ass faggots, especially that girl who started this; I will make sure to kick her in the nuts an extra time." His rant perfectly fit the tune of "How You Remind Me," "Never Again," and whatever other songs Nickelback has.